Alligator Campfire, Tuesday evening

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Scully had printed out a copy of her graduate thesis (Einstein's Twin Paradox: A New Interpretation) today, and re-read it, keeping in mind everything she'd learned so far in her last three weeks here.

That would be why it's burning merrily in the little firepit outside her cabin, cover page first. As well as the page that read, Although common sense may rule out the possibility of time travel, the laws of quantum physics certainly do not. Nothing like wishing you'd never been right and wrong.

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Bruce made his way out of the cabin and over to the campfire. When he saw what the girl from the other side of the cabin was doing, he had to ask, "That's not evidence, is it?"

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Scully looked up, surprised at the question, and her lips quirked sideways when she saw one of her cabin-mates. "Only of my ignorance of how strange the laws of physics actually are. Why did you think of evidence?"

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"I'm naturally suspicious," Bruce said. "I assume you're not from one of the stranger worlds represented here?"

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"I'm beginning to wonder," Scully said, poking at the pages, and feeding another section into the blaze. "If everyone's world seems stranger than your own, doesn't that make you the strange one?" She raised an eyebrow at him, and nodded to one of the seats. "Excuse the philosophy. I'm finding this place frustrating. Dana Scully. Sophomore." And former grad student.

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"Bruce Wayne. You're in Bishop's class, too," Bruce noted. "And don't worry, Fandom does that to a lot of people. Enough people, actually, that I'd say you have company being strange."

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"That's actually good to know. A great many people seem to be blase' about everything by now." She fed a few pages of the literature review into the fire. "Did you travel in time to get here? I'm trying to come up with a coherent physics theory, and realizing what a difference ten years makes in current scholarship." She paused, then said, "You're welcome to call me a nerd for it."

[trigons_child]

Raven wasn't entirely comfortable with the close quarters of the cabins, so she decided to step outside to clear her head. She paused at the campfire to greet Scully. "Hello," she said.

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"Hello," Scully greeted her.

That was the Goth look, right? The last time she'd seen it was on a pizza boy who liked to bite people.

"I didn't bring marshmallows." She smiled a little. "But you're welcome to share the fire. I'm Dana Scully."

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"Thank you," Raven said, settling on a log before the fire. "I am Raven. We are cabinmates, I believe." Just in case Scully didn't notice her coming out of the Alligator cabin and all.

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"B-side," Scully agreed, poking at the papers with a stick. Poke poke POKE. Grrr. "Have you been here on the Island long? This is only my third week."

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"It's May 25th here and it's May 25th back home. That's the most important part of the relative state of time here as far as I'm concerned," Bruce said, explaining his own well-considered theory of local physics. "But I'm not really one for assigning labels, so I'll stick to calling you 'Dana.'"

Actually, he always assigned labels. Just not in public, unless it was one of the labels that compelled him to punch someone in the face. Like murderer, or criminal, or mime.

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"A year now," Raven said. "I arrived at the beginning of summer last year." She peered at the fire. "Are you burning something?"

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Mimes were a gimme.

Scully's smirked very slightly, and said, "Practical. And it does let you get through the day without getting frustrated." She tilted her head, and said, "Do you enjoy it here? In spite of the strangeness and invasions that I've heard of?"

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Scully sighed. "A paper I wrote years-- a while ago." She gave Raven a tiny rueful smile. "When I thought I understood time travel and how impossible it was for human beings. Three weeks here and all that work is proven wrong."

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"Fandom is unique," Raven said reassuringly. "There are things that happen here that do not happen in many other worlds."

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"Most of the time," Bruce said. "The people tend to be interesting, there's virtually no crime, and you can usually learn something in the classes. How can you object to any of that?"

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"Does it happen in your-- world? Oh, that's weird to say," Scully muttered, tossing a page of the bibliography to the flames.

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"Raven, right?" Bruce asked. "How are you tonight?"

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"I am able to move between dimensions with ease," Raven said, "though traveling through time requires much powerful magics. It can be done, but it is not something to be trifled with." She scooted her log back a few inches, since it was warm so close to the fire. "Your world does not have magic in it?"

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Put like that, Scully had no choice but to grimace. "I.." Want to be somewhere I can contribute, and make a difference, in my own life, and being a teenager isn't going to do that. "Think I need to do something more. I'm not one for just hanging out in a cabin all summer." She looked meditative. "Maybe a new project will help."

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"Yes," Raven said, smiling a Bruce. "I am well, though still unused to the cabins. And yourself?"

[boywonder03.livejournal.com]

Oh, hey, fire! Tim sat down by the campfire with a half-bag of marshmallows and stuffed as many on a toasting stick as he could get to fit, then put the stick over a section of coals, away from the main flame. "Hey," he said to Scully.

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Scully didn't even know where to start. "No, it doesn't," she settled on, for a beginning. "Some odd quirks of science and biology on occasion, but nothing like 'magic.'"

Despite what Mulder kept insisting.

"And you move between dimensions?" Scully caught herself staring, five thousand questions coming to mind, and settled on a weak, "...really?" Or are you crazy?

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"Hey," Scully said, smiling sideways, then watched the toasting-stick maneuver with bemusement. "You know, there's always more where those came from. You don't have to eat them all in one night."

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"What kind of project are you thinking of?" Bruce asked.